Leslie Lee (1932- 2014)

Robin Holliday 1932–2014

Robin Holliday When the founder of a field of investigation departs from our midst, there is the palpable feeling among his or her close associates that an era has come to an end. Such is the sense that the elders of the field of genetic recombination feel with the passing of Robin Holliday, whose very name is synonymous with the process. Hediedathis homeon theoutskirtsofSydney, Australia, on t...

Gerald M. Siegel (1932–2014) – a tribute.

Gerald “Jerry” Siegel began his career with the people and places that shaped our field: Robert West, Oliver Bloodstein, endell Johnson, and Joe Spradlin, at Brooklyn College, the University of Iowa, and the University of Kansas. He then became n Assistant Professor in the fledgling Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Minnesota, in 1961, here he also held an adjunct appoi...

Evolvability LESLIE

Living organisms function in accordance with complex mechanisms that operate in different ways depending on conditions. Darwin’s theory of evolution suggests that such mechanisms evolved through variation guided by natural selection. However, there has existed no theory that would explain quantitatively which mechanisms can so evolve in realistic population sizes within realistic time periods, ...

Leslie Matthews

Op-brhe130268 1931..1932

We have known about the strong association between AS and the HLA-B*27 (B*27) gene for the past 40 years; however, the mechanism with which only some allomorphs of the HLA-B27 molecule, as well as some other HLA class I molecules, are involved in the occurrence of SpAs is still unclear [1]. In this issue of Rheumatology, Cauli et al. [2] present data that may aid our understanding of this mecha...